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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE O-1819-2 UPON SECOND AND FINAL READING: AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AMENDING SECTION 460 OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORMAN SO AS TO REMOVE LOTS SEVEN (7) THROUGH TEN (10) AND LOTS TWENTY-ONE (21) THROUGH THIRTY-TWO (32), BLOCK THIRTY-FOUR (34) AND LOTS ONE (1) THROUGH TWENTY-SIX (26), BLOCK THIRTY-FIVE (35) OF ORIGINAL TOWNSITE OF NORMAN, AND LOTS SEVEN (7) THROUGH TEN (10), BLOCK THREE (3), COLLEY'S FIRST ADDITION, TO NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FROM THE R-3, MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING DISTRICT, AND C-2, GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, AND PLACE THE SAME IN THE SPUD, SIMPLE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF. (421 EAST ACRES STREET)
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SYNOPSIS: St. Joseph's Church is seeking approval to rezone their property from C-2 and R-3 to SPUD (Simple Planned Unit Development) to implement a wayfinding sign package, which is not otherwise allowed by the Sign Code as currently zoned. The City Code allows a sign package to be approved as part of a SPUD site development plan approval. The Zoning Code (Section 22-420.05) requires a master sign plan as part of a SPUD.
ANALYSIS: St. Joseph's Church has existed in this location for many years. In 1996 they were required to rezone part of their campus to Special Use to allow their school to be re-opened. That was amended in 1997 to allow additional portable classroom buildings and again in 1998 for a new Family Life Center north of Acres Street and main church on Porter. It was amended again in 2010 to allow the reconstruction of the rectory and additional parking lots. The Porter Corridor Zoning Overlay District was also adopted in 2010 to regulate how land uses impact adjacent residential uses, specifically buffering parking lots from residential.
This Institutional use has evolved over many years from one defined area into a campus occupying 4 lot areas (defined by streets and alleys...
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